President Donald Trump said an order regarding migrant farm workers is coming “soon” as concerns mount over the effect the deportation of longtime workers could have on U.S. agriculture.
“We’re going to have an order on that pretty soon, I think,” Trump said Thursday at the White House. “We can’t do that to our farmers, and leisure too. Hotels. We’re going to have to use a lot of common sense on that.”
The Trump administration has pursued an aggressive deportation effort in California and elsewhere, including conducting workplace immigration raids. Reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was conducting raids on farms have spurred anxiety in workers.
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However, in a Truth Social post earlier Thursday, Trump conceded that his “very aggressive policy” was taking away longtime workers
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